YAWARA!

Mangaka: Naoki Urasawa
Genre: shoujo, sports, comedy

"Lovely and cute Miss Yawara Inokuma is a fashionable judo girl!"

Synopsis: Inokuma Yawara is the only granddaughter of judo master Inokuma Jigoro. While Jigoro is hellbent on training his grandchild to be an Olympic judo champion, Yawara has other plans of her own. She just wants to be a normal high school girl, interested in clothes, make-up, and boys.

Comments: Yawara's about a contest of wills as much as it's about a contest of strength. Jigoro's a crazy judo freak. His world revolves around judo and refuses to see anything else. Yawara is undoubtedly talented and strong but although she isn't the least bit interested in judo, she does it for her grandfather. Although the story is a bit old (it's from the 80's and she's training for the '92 Barcelona Olympics), Yawara and grandfather still crack me up.

If you like Yawara, you might also like Jigoro which is a one-shot about the grandfather when he was a young judo champion himself.

Yawara has an anime version, too.

Scanlator: Tama-Chan Scans